after asking on systemd-devel i got "This looks like dracut didn't package the file correctly into the initrd. Please file a bug against dracut" and so here we are

all the other errors at the bottom are a direct result of this one and that config works for years on at least 35 fedora setups until i upgrade to F32

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[root@rawhide ~]# systemctl status systemd-vconsole-setup.service
● systemd-vconsole-setup.service - Setup Virtual Console
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2020-06-27 20:45:53 CEST; 51s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-vconsole-setup.service(8)
             man:vconsole.conf(5)
   Main PID: 209 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 28ms

Jun 27 20:45:54 rawhide.vmware.local systemd-vconsole-setup[214]: cannot open file de-latin1-nodeadkeys

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the file is obviously there and in fact is *used* for the VT because i have the correct keyboard layout and german umlauts and when i remove "KEYMAP=de-latin1-nodeadkeys" from "/etc/vconsole.conf" i end with a english keyboard and enter my password is virtually impossible

[root@rawhide ~]# lsinitrd | grep de-latin1-nodeadkey
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          493 Feb 10 11:26 usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map

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[root@rawhide ~]# cat /etc/vconsole.conf
FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
KEYMAP=de-latin1-nodeadkeys

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[root@rawhide ~]# cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=1
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Fedora"
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=false
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="text"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nosmp edd=off audit=0 rd.plymouth=0 plymouth.enable=0 zswap.enabled=0 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 nodmraid raid=noautodetect nomodeset selinux=0 noswapaccount nousb usbcore.nousb noisapnp noresume hibernate=no kaslr thermal.off=1 nmi_watchdog=0 pcie_aspm=off consoleblank=0 rd.luks=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 vconsole.keymap=de-latin1-nodeadkeys locale.LANG=C.UTF-8"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true

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[root@rawhide ~]# system-errors.sh
[Sat Jun 27 20:45:52 2020] systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
[Sat Jun 27 20:45:52 2020] systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
[Sat Jun 27 20:45:52 2020] systemd[1]: Failed to start Setup Virtual Console.
[Sat Jun 27 20:45:52 2020] systemd[1]: Dependency failed for dracut ask for additional cmdline parameters.
[Sat Jun 27 20:45:52 2020] systemd[1]: dracut-cmdline-ask.service: Job dracut-cmdline-ask.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Jun 27 20:45:54 rawhide systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 27 20:45:54 rawhide systemd[1]: systemd-vconsole-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 27 20:45:54 rawhide systemd[1]: Failed to start Setup Virtual Console.
Jun 27 20:45:54 rawhide systemd[1]: Dependency failed for dracut ask for additional cmdline parameters.
Jun 27 20:45:54 rawhide systemd[1]: dracut-cmdline-ask.service: Job dracut-cmdline-ask.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Jun 27 20:45:54 rawhide systemd-vconsole-setup[209]: /usr/bin/loadkeys failed with exit status 1.
Jun 27 20:45:54 rawhide systemd-vconsole-setup[269]: /usr/bin/loadkeys failed with exit status 1.
Jun 27 20:45:54 rawhide systemd-udevd[261]: vtcon0: Process '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup' failed with exit code 1.

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